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Trump Baffled That Dems Aren’t Caving to His Demands (www.thedailybeast.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49039282

“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”

Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle

“I don’t know what’s wrong with them,” he said of Democrats Friday. “They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them... It’s their fault. Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”

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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not. I would be if the USA had been a healthy democracy when he did that, but it wasn't. Trump just made evident the problems that had been festering for decades.

The USA is like the late Roman Empire. Most elected officials at the municipal, state and federal level are either corrupt or passive in the face of corruption. The news only occasionally reports truthfully on a political issue and that's probably only because the truth happened to coincide with the agenda they had already decided to push before the truth even happened. The wealth inequality is much higher than what is tolerable and growing at an accelerating rate. The population is either too beaten down to resist tyranny or too distracted by entertainment to care.

The only two possible paths for the country now are an all-out civil war or an inevitable march into an overt dictatorship.

Or Trump could die. That would be the best solution. And if we're really lucky, nobody will even have to assassinate him as is the patriotic duty of every single American; he's old and senile and his health is shit. He could die tomorrow. But he won't because this is the worst possible timeline.